Rays Your Voice: Offseason begins, Peter Bendix departs

Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY SportsThe World Series has come and gone and the offseason is well underway. The Rays placed six players on outright waivers, including catcher Christian Bethancourt, and lost three players to free agency. Now that everyone on the 60-day IL (plus Wander Franco) have been re-added to the 40-man roster, we can get a better sense of how the Rays plan to tackle this offseason.

One position group that has received a complete overhaul since the start of last season is catcher. Francisco Mejía was DFA and is now a free agent. Christian Bethancourt was just placed on waivers. Blake Hunt, who was the club’s top-catching prospect and came over in the Blake Snell trade along…